by Laura | Feb 14, 2011
In late 2006 Randy Pausch, a gifted and popular computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. A year later he gave a talk at the school as part of a Last Lecture series in which professors were asked to distill what most...
by Laura | Jan 24, 2011
Molly Peacock is an award-winning author of several volumes of poetry. In this work she turns her poet’s eye for vivid detail and sensual language to her own life. Described by her as a “hybrid memoir” that blends fact with invented characters and...